Beast Taming: My System is Bugged

"So it awakened a Prophetic Element ability. What a lucky little one."

Gu Ming reached out and gently stroked the Star Spirit in Lu You’s arms. He could clearly perceive a warm little face within the soft halo of light as it pressed against his fingertip and nuzzled it affectionately.

No words were needed. A moment ago, through the fluctuations of Divine Sense from the Star Spirit, he had fully witnessed the scene it had foreseen.

As a result, the doubts in Gu Ming’s mind began to clear, and he gained a more concrete grasp of the true intentions behind the Friends of Nature’s New Year charity event.

Just as Gu Ming finished interpreting the prophetic vision from the Star Spirit,

the slightly sluggish system finally updated with the afternoon’s activity log:

"On the first day of the new year, the Star Spirit awakened a Prophetic Element ability."

"Through a great prophecy, you glimpsed the residual effects of the Friends of Nature’s nationwide General Knowledge Ceremony."

"You debated the Path with Mr. Tree Slice for a second time and were once again outmatched. As a result, your ’Cyan Pine’ Path has been covered in dust."

’So it really is related to a mysterious nationwide ceremony,’ Gu Ming mused.

The "General Knowledge Ceremony" mentioned in the system prompt sounded like a conventional ritual for granting enlightenment and disseminating knowledge.

In Array Art, this type of ritual was a fundamental technique.

However, when the scope of such a ritual expanded to the entire nation, its nature became entirely different.

This was by no means a simple Array that could be learned from a textbook. It was a grand design, one that required an extremely powerful group of Pet Beasts to jointly preside over it and construct a network of Arrays at major regional nodes for support.

This required not only a profound mastery of Array Art, but the requirements for positioning the nodes were also incredibly stringent. It necessitated the use of an Astrology Element Pet Beast’s abilities, observing celestial phenomena to achieve precise, nationwide positioning.

In the Way of the Array, a miss by a hair’s breadth could result in an error of a thousand miles.

Especially in a large-scale, cross-regional ritual like this, Astrology Element abilities were an almost indispensable core component.

Therefore, even if the Astrology Element wasn’t a "game-breaker" on the level of the Prophetic Element, it was still a strategically vital ability.

But to get back on topic.

Gu Ming’s gaze swept over the third line of the system log. ’Covered in dust?’

He hadn’t yet reached the "Path" stage, where one had to choose a direction, so his understanding of it wasn’t profound, but he knew the basics.

The so-called "Path" was the core cultivation philosophy a High Tier Beastmaster chose to follow.

Most mainstream Cultivation Techniques on the market belonged to the "Non-Self" school of thought, which relied on external aids for cultivation.

The philosophy of the old version of the Cyan Pine Unmoving Technique, however, seemed to carry the hidden risk of pushing a Cultivator’s consciousness toward a "non-human" state.

This was perhaps related to certain secrets of the Demon War.

After careful consideration, Gu Ming decided to take this opportunity to expose the hidden dangers of the old Cultivation Technique to the public.

The best way to do this was undoubtedly through a short-video platform, using simple language to package the potential risks into a sensational piece of educational content.

The tricky part was figuring out how to make it go viral.

Gu Ming looked at the crowd. Everyone was frenzied, anxiously worked up about their children’s futures, as if it were only natural to fight for anything and everything related to it.

If you didn’t fight, you’d fall a step behind.

The college entrance exam wasn’t just about the score; it was about competing for rank against your peers. A high score meant nothing if your ranking didn’t improve.

As long as it involved nationally-watched topics like the college entrance exam and academic advancement, generating discussion would be easy.

He quickly locked onto his target audience: high school seniors, who were just coming of age and in desperate need of contracting a Pet Beast, and their parents.

He might as well ride this wave and analyze the difference between the cultivation ceiling of the Cyan Pine Unmoving Technique and the new Cyan Pine technique, especially during the 100-day sprint before the exams.

As long as he thoroughly analyzed the pros and cons of the two Cultivation Techniques from a technical standpoint, then led with the shocking conclusion that "The Cyan Pine Unmoving Technique is obsolete," it was bound to attract widespread attention.

After all, who could refuse the temptation of a "five-fold increase in Cultivation Speed"?

With a plan in mind, Gu Ming set off to visit his former homeroom teacher, Teacher Ling, at her home.

As it happened, Teacher Ling had not gone out that afternoon.

She was very surprised to see Gu Ming, but her face quickly broke into a smile.

Having a student from a top university visit on the first day of the new year was, after all, a matter of prestige.

"Well, if it isn’t Gu Ming!"

"I haven’t seen you in half a year! You look well, more composed."

Teacher Ling said, enthusiastically welcoming him in.

"Teacher Ling, please don’t tease me. I’m just an ordinary research Beastmaster."

Gu Ming said with a smile, making small talk as he handed over the Beast Taming-related gift he had prepared.

After a few moments of small talk, Teacher Ling’s gaze finally fell upon Lu You, who was standing to the side.

Or more accurately, it was drawn to the strange halo of light in her arms.

It wasn’t that Teacher Ling was being unobservant; Lu You simply had such a faint presence, having followed quietly behind Gu Ming ever since they entered.

"Is this... the aura of the Sea of-stars?"

Teacher Ling said, scrutinizing the Star Spirit with a surprised tone. "I heard this is a Pet Beast that can only be born in the lake at the summit of the world. It’s incredibly rare."

Gu Ming seized the opportunity, taking over the conversation to tell her all about how the Star Spirit had just awakened its prophetic ability.

Lu You would occasionally murmur a word or two, but Gu Ming guided the conversation, successfully piquing Teacher Ling’s intense interest.

"You’re saying you ’saw’ an Ancient Divine Deer performing a General Knowledge Ceremony in the central city plaza?"

Teacher Ling asked, raising an eyebrow.

As the homeroom teacher for a graduating senior class, she was extremely sensitive to any information related to education and potential development.

The "General Knowledge Ceremony" Gu Ming mentioned naturally drew her full attention.

Gu Ming went with the flow, inviting Teacher Ling to experience a fragment of the vision the Star Spirit had foreseen.

A moment later, Teacher Ling slowly opened her eyes. She clicked her tongue, her expression grave as she commented:

"This Ancient Divine Deer’s Divine Sense... there’s something wrong with it. It does not come in peace."

"Oh? What do you mean?"

Gu Ming asked, feigning confusion.

He believed that any Beastmaster with keen spiritual Perception and a decent moral compass could detect a certain indescribable wrongness in the prophetic vision.

It wasn’t the blurriness caused by the unclear timeline of a Prophetic Element vision. It stemmed from the "divinity" within the deer’s Divine Sense—a divinity that was overly pure, almost cold.

Furthermore, the "Cyan Pine" imagery it presented had subtle yet crucial differences from the Cyan Pine Unmoving Technique taught in schools.

It wasn’t that it was wrong, but that the version it guided one toward was an absolutely pure enlightenment, one stripped of all human impurities.

For a researcher, this might be a rare specimen, a glimpse into the original form of ancient Spiritual Techniques.

But for a modern Beastmaster, it was a cause for alarm. A Cultivator is ultimately human, not an unfeeling plant. If one failed to grasp that distinction, it was easy to fall into cultivation deviation.

Besides, Teacher Ling had seen the cultivation progress made with Gu Ming’s revised Cultivation Technique and knew some of its key principles.

For instance, a group of new students she taught this year had studied Gu Ming’s revised technique and achieved top rankings across the province, becoming peerless for a time.

That was why she was a firm supporter of Gu Ming’s innovations.

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